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Monday, April 14, 2014

1. FOCUS ON GOD. Pray that the summer missionaries will remain focused on his/her relationship with God. That the NT participants’ relationship with Jesus Christ be their first priority and their motivation for sharing the saving gospel message.

2. TEAM UNITY. The testimony of the team as a whole is an illustration of the how the Body of Christ works and cooperates together- please ask God for team unity in the NT. Pray that as the team works together that the glorify their Father in Heaven.

3. HUMILITY. Please pray that as they minister to the lost that they follow the example of Jesus Christ. In humility and love that they are able to demonstrate the gospel to the communities they are serving in.

4. BOLDNESS. Please pray for the NT participants that they will boldly proclaim the truth of the gospel.

5. LISTEN TO GOD. Please ask God that the participants have ears to hear God, and that they remain sensitive to the Holy Spirit’s moving.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Does it mean living in luxury? Or living in
fame? How can we consider one who is
living the highest life?

In
order to answer this question, let us back track and learn about life. Let us
learn about man. Let us learn and understand who Christ is, his plan for us to
live, really live for him.

Let
us begin by taking a look at the Bio-Zoe-logical chart

Biology- the science and the study of life

Zoe- Greek word for life

·God-
the highest life form in the universe

He is Non-
dimensional. (There’s no height, length, depth, height or size. He is IMMESUARABLE.)

He created the spiritual realm. This realm came to
existence before space-time and is outside the measurements and concepts of
time.

GOD STANDS OUTSIDE OF TIME.

This,
for us, is hard to understand because we are creatures of time, space, and
dimension. We are FINITE or LIMITED.

·Angels-
the highest created life form

Doesn’t have souls

·Man-
the only creature who is hybrid

God created man with:

1.Body

2.Soul- human life

Set
up relationships with all things in the visible realm

Helps
relate to the physical or visible realm

3.Spirit- God breathed into man and gave him a spirit

Man’s
spirit was supposed to be the CONTAINER
OF GOD’S SPIRIT (LIFE)

This
is the secret to our Christian walk

·Animals-
have souls but doesn’t have a spirit

SOUL- the life form that
belongs to the physical realm. Helps relate to the physical world

SPIRIT- the life form that
belongs to the spiritual realm

·Plants-

Let
us take a look at Adam

·Unfallen Adam- (Perfect body, soul and spirit)

The soul before was submissive to the spirit

·Fallen Adam- (Fallen body, Mutated soul and
dead spirit)

The
soul mutated and the spirit died and so our soul dominated us.

The Effect of sinning was that:

·Man’s spirit died to the spiritual realm
(it was cut off)

·Adam could no longer see the unseen or hear
the unseen

·Man became a creature of the physical
realm.( he began to relate more to his soul
than to his spirit)

·He moved closer to becoming an animal

·His soul began trying to do the things that
normally the spirit would do. Man began to reach out to God through his soul.
(Mind, will and emotions)

· He
began to think that doing good is what would please God

·Man now had the knowledge of good and evil

·Both evil and the desire to do good lived
in man driving him mad

·He has now the element of a fallen angel.
Life form living in him that is greater than he is and holds him prisoner

·There is now the cycle of life to try to
please, do, be legalistic in order to get in favor with God.

But….

Because
of God’s
love, He sentHis one and only son that whosoever
believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John
3:16)

When
we believed Jesus Christ as our personal savoir, we have been re-generated
(made alive, made new); our spirit has been resurrected. Our soul has been
cleaned. Our soul is in the presence of a resurrected spirit and is being
changed by this new life and by the word of God. Our spirit has been made one
with His spirit. And as I received Christ “I have been crucified with Christ
and I no longer live but Christ lives in me the life I live in the body I live
by faith in the son who loved me and gave himself for me.”(Galatians 2:20) Not
“I” but “Christ.” dying to self and self-attitudes. His Will NOT our will.

Let
us make it clear, that WE CAN’T LIVE THE
CHRISTIAN LIFE. It is God’s life poured in us that lives the Christian
life. For without CHRIST, we are NOTHING.
That’s the Fact.

Only
one thing prevents Jesus from filling our hearts with His spirit with
overflowing, and that is sin in one of its thousand forms. The Lord Jesus
doesn’t fill dirty cups. Anything that springs from self, however small it may
be is sin. It is not an accident that Dung Gate(Confession) comes first before
Fountain Gate( Holy Spirit) because we can’t live the highest life if we
haven’t yet confessed to God our sin- the only thing that prevents Jesus from
filling our hearts with his spirit.

Living
full of God’s spirit is to live the highest life. It is to live with and by the
indwelling of the Lord. Christ in Us.